You are potty training your 3 year old daughter. She lets you know every time she needs to use the bathroom, however she is having accidents instead of actually using the toilet. Her pediatrician suggests that you should have her clean her underwear every time she has an accident. You start enforcing this rule, and she has fewer accidents. This is an example of…

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Having your daughter clean her underwear after accidents is an example of positive punishment. This approach introduces an unfavorable outcome (cleaning underwear) after an undesirable behavior (having accidents), which decreases the likelihood of the behavior happening again.

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